OK here's the second chapter I'm working on this alongside Hopeful so sorry for the wait

Disclaimer: I Don't own Gundams seed or wing


The Zaft council member Keagan Brown wasn't someone anyone downright distrusted or hated but his reticent nature often made other council members question what he wanted as far as the war effort against the Earth Alliance went.

Still due to his side career as a general tech designer which contributed to the invention of mobile suits which gave Zaft the edge it needed to level the playing field with the EA no one could accuse him of planning anything against the Plants.

That didn't change the fact that Keagan's insistence on keeping most of his fellow politicians well beyond arm's length at least with a lot of personal information pertaining to how he was trying to assist the war effort beyond attending meetings after the first mobile suits were created made a lot of other council members question what he was after.

Keagan was well aware of the questions going through the fellow council members' minds since the contributions he already made rendered any would be accusations of trying to undermine Zaft as absurd he never paid it much mind.

While he didn't intend to turn against Zaft or the Plants Keagan did indeed have a personal goal of his own one that was similar to Orb's but far off at the same time. At one point he may have tried to at least strive for what Siegel and his daughter were trying to achieve but as the years went on and the events leading up to the war and throughout it have solidified the belief that the Clyne family's ideals were too naive and something of a liability to the Plants. For the sake of reaching what he was aiming for Keagan had immersed himself in his designing career working on a device that allowed instantaneous travel to literally anywhere in the universe in hopes of finding a planet with the same resources as the Earth but with he sent a beacon and it projected a perfect signal but when sent out Roland to the location the Zaft pilot was unable to find the smallest trace.

Keegan then reversed transported to the beacon back to himself successfully and asked Roland if he seen any sign of the device being transported and much to his shock Roland reported not having seen any glimmer of a vortex.

Wanting to get to the bottom of the anomaly Keagan equipped the beacon with a visual sensor or camera. When Keagan had the beacon sent back out he got the shock of his life and the camera displayed a colony that was shaped completely differently from the Plants.

Desiring more information Keagan sent out more beacons to different locations and a few found other abnormally shaped colonies throughout space and one beacon found a shuttle transporting people to one of the said space colonies.

Keagan would have believed the Colonies in question were simply in a different location of space that Zaft nor the Earth Alliance had ever explored if not for the fact that many of the beacons were seemingly displaying signals from locations that were well in the territories of both sides which would make the colonies physically impossible to hide from the world and that whenever Roland explored one of the location he didn't find any semblance of the said space colonies. Because of this there was really only one explanation left to accept. The beacons were in a completely different world separate from the Cosmic Era.

While the first thing that may come to mind with most Coordinators was to transport the people of the Plants to the other world to finally escape the reach of Naturals Keagan was well aware that doing such a thing would only lead to some type of reaction by whoever the locals were and it might was unlikely to involve hospitality since the idea of another society and maybe even race depending on if Coordinators existed in the other world or not would probably do a lot more than simply startle them.

Needless to say having Coordinators simply settle in the other world might get them out of reach of the Earth Alliance in the Cosmic Era but may end up leading to new complications that could escalate to an even bigger level then the ones in the cosmic era.

Still Keagan saw potential use in the other world in terms of possible weaponry that could tip the scales of the war in Zaft's favor and sent Roland to other world to confirm if the inhabitants there had weapons suited for space but decided to keep this to himself. The vortexes created but the jump devices tended to give off an abnormal signal when they were created but luckily putting a radar jammers around the area where Roland would head with a three-man squad to the other side kept the Plants from even detecting anything so the abnormality would never be found out on the Cosmic Era side.

While the Vortex would still come off as an abnormality on the other side Keagan wasn't really too concerned since it simply meant it would be easier to get the inhabitant of the other world's attention without provoking them into sending out an entire army.

When Roland returned, Keagan was surprised to find Roland's CGUE damaged to the point that it'll take almost a month to repair it he could only assume that whatever local Roland had encountered turned hostile.

Upon greeting the Zaft Pilot and confirming his suspicions Keagan received another shock when Roland told him that a single mobile suit attacked him and that it resembled a G weapon.

Which brought Keagan to where he was now in an office he used whenever he visited the Zaft base he was currently at questioning the Zaft Red.

"Roland tell me everything you're able about this mobile suits performance."

"Like I said before it resembled the stolen G weapons and had reaction times that may or matched or even surpassed them."

"Really?"

"Yeah it took out one of the GINNs with only a single shot of a long range rifle before attacking me and like the g weapons physical rounds seemed to have been useless against it."-

"I see compared to matching or surpassing the G weapons of our word how would you assess it."

"I can't say much but I'm leaning towards going with surpassing them since the damage to my CGUE's arm was done by what I believe was a secondary weapon on both of its shoulders and even shredded my shield and that's not even taking into account that the machine's reactions were faster than any GINN or CGUE could hope to match."

"What was the weapon you mentioned a beam cannon of some kind?"

"No, just a pair of Gatling guns."

Keagan raised an eyebrow.

"You mean a normal Gatling gun?"

"In terms of appearance and bullet type I'd say yes but in terms of power they could probably tear entire mobile suits to pieces. Beyond that all I can really say is that I have the feeling that the suit's a lot more powerful than the pilot initially displayed."

"And what would you make of the pilot."

Roland was silent for a few moments.

"He sounded like he was around my age, he skill was beyond that of most Zaft reds but he might have been holding back actually it might be a safe bet to say he was."

"Are you certain."

"For the majority part yes, the pilot didn't seem like the type who'd show all the cards in his hand right from the start. He was smart enough to listen in on me and the other two when we were going over the mission.'

"It sounds like we won't be able to go back anytime soon if he alerts local militia. This is rather tedious, I would have preferred an opportunity to try capturing that suit for study."

"Actually we might have the chance if he took the bait I set for him."

Keagan stared at Roland for a few moments before replying. "You mean you tricked him into coming here to the Cosmic Era?"

"I thought it'd be better if he was caught off from any reinforcements, plus since he can't report the findings of our mobile suits to the militia in his world no one will ever find out that there were intruders."

"You realize the wreckage from the GINN's is still there?"

"Maybe but the inhabitants won't have a clue as to why they are there in first place, they'll simply end up thinking it was some group within their own world and will look in all the wrong places so we're safe as long as we don't enter their world near one of their colonies. Plus if he's here we'll have an easier time capturing the mobile suit."

"True, though I would also like you to capture the pilot if you can do before Rue La Cruset's team finds out about him assuming he makes a debut to the people of the Cosmic Era."

"Considering the vortex will spit him out in some random location and he doesn't know anything about the military factions or their locations it'd be nearly impossible not to be noticed. As for Ru La Cruset's team they're just your run of the mill ace pilots they might have mobile suits that are superior to any mass production unit but that doesn't mean they'll succeed in shooting him down or capturing his suit."

"You sound like you're confident they'll fail."

"Like I said before I get the feeling the pilot of that otherworldly mobile suit was holding back and I mean really holding back."

"So we don't have to hurry about anyone else getting to him first."

"Yeah but capturing him isn't going to be easy, I wasn't kidding when I said its reactions were faster than any mass production mobile suit and its prowess is nothing to scoff at either. We'd need multiple squadrons of CGUEs just to have a chance and mustering up the said numbers and that would come at the extreme risk of getting the attention of the other council members."

"True but I have something that might close the gap in power to some extent, enough so we won't require as many numbers."

"A new mass production unit?"

"Yes." Keagan said pulling a lap top an opening it. Moments after the screen lit up showing the specs to a new mobile suit that looked somewhat similar to the GINN and CGUE with the name "GUAIZ" written above it.

"I'm guessing this mobile is meant to replace the GINN."

"That's its' official purpose though it will still be some time before there's enough of them to let even common use them, they're no g weapons but they possess superior performances to CGUEs and are close enough to the G weapons that in the hands of a skilled enough pilot they could take down one of G weapons in single combat since they incorporate the beam technology the G weapons have. The combination of a squadron of them all in the hands of at least above average pilots with yourself in the lead may be enough."

"I might but we shouldn't be too complacent or it could easily backfire on us."

"Which is why I want you to lead the mission, plus I plan to give you a customized version of the Gauiz which will have extra mobility and a beam saber."

"In that case we can just use the beam saber from my CGUE."

"Very well, with that decided all we need to do is wait for this pilot from the otherworld to come out into the open."

"I'll be ready to deploy whenever I'm needed."

XXXXX

On Board the Zaft ship that was headed to the ruins of Junius seven alarms were now going off and representatives and civilians alike were being transferred to escape pods to evacuate the ship.

Amongst those who were being led to the escape pods was Lacus who was being led by the female Zaft officer she had met recently. "Come on miss Clyne we have to get you off this ship."

"What's going on?" Lacus asked actually already having a good idea of what was happening but prayed she was wrong.

"The Earth Alliance had a squadron on patrol out here. Our pilots are doing the best they can but the enemy brought in reinforcements that were close by and now there's too many of them for our pilots to fight off." The Zaft officer replied as she led Lacus to an escape pod.

"please get inside." the officer said ushering the songstress into the escape pod.

"How about you?"

"Don't worry I signed up to protect our home and that's exactly what I intend to do." The Zaft officer said before closing the door to the pod and sending it out moments before the Zaft ship was shot by an Agamemnon class Earth Alliance ship which destroyed it.

Lacus could only watch in shock as the ship was engulfed in flames and swarms of mobile armors which the Zaft GINNs were shooting a good portion of down but as the Zaft officer said there were simply to many of them and the Zaft pilot were steadily being overwhelmed.

To make matters worse the EA was picking off any other life pods they could find. Lacus so the face of another representative inside another life pod not far from hers. They expression showed pure shock as the frantically. It was obvious they were wishing to get back to the Plants safely and hoping with all their being that the Zaft forces would prevail.

Unfortunately to anyone who had a clear enough view of the battle knew who would win here, the other representatives faces turned completely pale with fear when one of the EA mobile armors fired a missile at it.

Lacus turned away unable to watch as the missile continued on its way towards the as she recursively imagined just how terrified the other representative was as the projectile came closer and closer until the sound of a hard impact and explosion was.

Lacus held her pink harobot close to her arm praying that someone would save the people the Earth Alliance was trying so hard to kill.

As the last of the remaining GINNs were shot down Lacus eyes all the floating scraps of metal debris from the Zaft ship mobile and other escape pods and she wondered why this was happening.

It was at this time that one of the EA pilots had taken notice of her life and set a course in her direction with the intention of killing her the very moment they were in firing range. Lacus could only close her eyes and wait for the end.

'Father sorry for leaving you alone, but please bring peace back the world.' The pop idol thought as she resigned herself to her fate. However it seemed fate had different plan as the mobile armor was pelted by bullets and destroyed.

Lacus opened her eyes just in time to see the flames from her would be killer's machine before a massive yellow blast soared through the air and hit an EA ship in its front before tearing all the way though to it a hitting another EA ship that was behind it, in an instant both ship were destroyed leaving nothing but a few scraps of metal floating in space.

What followed afterwards was the sound of rapid gun fire and the sight of the mobile armor units all going up in in flames in quick succession. What flew into Lacus' line of sight left her speechless. A white and blue mobile suit with a long rifle and shield in hand and a green jewel in the middle of its chest floated between her and the remainder of the EA force as it took aim with its rifle and fired at another yellow beam at another EA ship wiping it from existence before firing a pair of Gatling guns on its shoulders which mowed down the remainder of the Mobile armors in less than a minute.

Lacus stared wide eyed at her possible savior, she didn't know if they were there specifically to save her and whoever else may have survived the EA's attack but she was thankful none the less.

The mobile suit aimed its rifle at the final EA ship which tried to hailed them over an open channel over the radio.

"Please don't! We surrender so please spare us."

Whoever the pilot of the unknown mobile suit was didn't bother with any type of reply as it fired its rifle again releasing a yellow blast that sored towards the EA ship.

"NNNOOOOOOOO."

Lacus was a bit stunned at how merciless this pilot was but still the fact was that whoever they were had saved her.

"Ummm who are you? I'm glad that you saved me but I don't know your name." Lacus said over the radio of her escape pod.

The face of what looked like a boy around her age showed up on the monitor of her pod but it was hard to see their exact appearance as they were wearing a black space suit helmet.

"Heero Yuy. Do you nowhere the nearest friendly ship is?"

"No we came out here to perform a memorial service for the lives lost here at Junious seven."

"Got it, I'll take you to the first ship I find." Heero said in a tone that made it seem as if he already knew about Lacus' purpose for being here.

"Oh OK, thank you for helping me but I have to know are there are other survivors?"

"No, the forces I destroyed wiped them all out you're escape pod is that only thing left."

"I see." Lacus replied sadly.

XXXXX

Heero was not one to be taken by surprise easily but when the vortex spit him out he had hoped to simply find Roland Quinby and capture him, he didn't expect to be brought just outside the field of a battle between Mobile suits that looked like the ones he faced before he came through the vortex.

Heero wasn't initially sure who's side he should take or rather if should have got involved at all, still he had no idea where in the entire universe he was and as such he needed information if he wanted to have even the slightest inkling as to where Roland was.

He remembered how one of the Pilots of aside from Roland mention how the Earth Alliance had no Mobile suits so he was pretty certain the side with all the jets was the said Earth Alliance Roland and the other two pilots were talking about before but that left the question of who the other side was. He could say without a doubt that the other side wasn't on friendly terms with the EA.

Looking over the channels of the radio Heero soon found one that the other side was speaking on. As it turned out they were caught off guard by the presence of the enemy when they were headed here to perform a memorial for whoever died at this place which he found out was called Junius seven.

Since things were leaning in the Earth Alliances favor the other side decided to evacuate the civilians in hopes they would be left out of the fight and that someone could find them after realizing the crew was gone. But the Earth Alliance began attacking the life boats in response to the other sides actions.

It seemed this Earth Alliance had even less honor then OZ or the Romefeller foundation. They may have had their flaws but at least they had more sense than the Earth Alliance who didn't even seemed concerned with putting a front.

Right and there Heero decided he'd save what civilians he could. He didn't have no intent on join the other side but the civilians shouldn't have been being slaughtered the way they were. As the last mobile suit was shot down Heero opened fired on a jet that was about to fire upon the only remaining life boat and preceded to eliminate the rest of the Alliance force.

The task in and of itself was pretty straightforward since the EA's units were less of a threat than Leo mobile suits that OZ used by a rather large margin so aside from briefly revealing his Gundam to be on the level of a ship destroyer he'd be able to keep all his abilities and weaponry a secrete for the time being.

Once Heero got to the last ship they'd tried to surrender but Heero ignored their plea for two reasons, first after blatantly targeting civilians they didn't deserve to live and second Heero didn't want them to report seeing him to their higher ups and make him known to their entire side.

After eliminating the last ship a feminine voice spoke to him over the radio and upon establishing contact with her he found the monitor only displaying static only likely because of some damage to her life pod.

After speaking with her for a bit and giving her his name Heero decided to find the nearest ship he could and headed through the debris until he reach the other side where a detected something on his machine's radar which turned out to be a massive white double legged ship.

Judging from its shaped it was obvious it couldn't be anything that the United Earth Nations made. Since there was no sign of any other ships it was pretty much a given he was going to be taking the life pod to it.

'Let's see if they got any information about what's going on.'

Using Wing Zero's interface Heero hacked the ship's systems and quickly downloaded the files he was looking for and what he found wasn't nowhere near anything he could have expected. Come to find out the Earth Alliance had been at with the other side called Zaft for around a year now after the Earth Alliance decided to nuke one of their colonies which were called Plant's known as Junius seven where he was currently located killing a mass of civilians in the process which instigated an opening in hostilities for both sides and the Plants in turn seeded the Earth with special devices called N jammers which resulted in an energy crises throughout the Earth causing a large of the planet's population to die off from radiation and starvation. While the reason for the Zaft's action wasn't hard to understand Heero didn't see it as the optimal thing to do considering the majority of the those that died from it were also civilians. All in all neither side really had that much sense but it seemed like the Earth Alliance was responsible for starting the entire war.

Another thing that got Heero's attention was when the Calendar read itself the Cosmic Era instead of After colony. 'So that what Roland meant by my world.' Heero thought as he realized he was in a completely different universe.

Continuing his search through the Cosmic Era's history the Gundam pilot was a bit surprised that it was actually something of a racial war because of a difference in the genes of both sides. Apparently some years back it was revealed how to modify one's genes in order to enhance the speed of their reactions and they're ability to process data and even control what they'll look like when their born. Those who were modified came to be known as Coordinator's and those who weren't were then known as Naturals

Apparently the racial division has led many Naturals to believe that Coordinators should be wiped out so Naturals could reclaim their place has the pinnacle of humanity and form a group of extremist known as Blue Cosmos who only served to fuel the Natural's hatred of Coordinators, while this initially would paint the Earth Alliance as the worst side between the two at first glance Zaft was actually not much better.

Mirroring the views of Blue cosmos many members amongst the Zaft council and military believed that Coordinators were a superior race and the next step in human evolution and that as such they had the right to eradicate the Naturals and replace them as the dominate race of humanity as a result both sides both desired the genocide of their enemies.

Heero also confirmed what he already suspected from bits of info he had already gathered and discovered that while the Earth Alliance had a vast advantage in numbers Zaft leveled the plain field with the creation of Mobile suits giving them an even more vast advantage in quality of their weaponry resulting in the EA having to outnumber Zaft 5 to 1 to have a chance at winning. One discovery that Heero found that may have made the cosmic Era more similar to the AC Era than one may initially guess was the invention of five special mobile suits called G weapon or Gundams by the cooperation of the EA and a neutral Nation called Orb which were intended to help the EA close the gap in quality but Zaft forces found out and launched a mission to steal the mobile suit capturing four of the five. The only suit remaining in the EA's hands was called the Strike.

"Seeing this history it seems more like neither side really has any sense period." Heero said flying within visual range of the legged ship and waited for a few minutes to see how they'd respond to his presence. He stayed close enough to the debris field so he could retreat back in it and drop off the escape pod while he fought back in the case the ship attacked.

While it was a given Heero could just eliminate the ship and its crew with minimal effort he preferred not to fight since it would still pose some risk to the civilian's life which he was currently prioritizing protecting so he really preferred not to fight with these people if it could be avoided.

Luckily for him whoever was in charge decided to hail him over the radio.

"This is Ramius of the Earth Alliance ship Archangel, I request for you to identify yourself."

"This is Heero Yuy of the Wing Zero I'd like permission to come aboard your ship, I have a civilian with me."

The person who spoke to him went silent and a short time later Heero could hear what sounded like arguing in the back ground and he had a pretty good idea as to why, since the EA for the majority part lacked any mobile suits they probably suspected him of being a Zaft soldier.

After another minute or two the woman calling her Ramius contacted him again. "You have permission to come aboard but be warned any threat to this ship will be dealt with."

"Roger that." With that Heero set a course for the Archangel as one of its' legs opened and contacted the civilian he rescued.

"Hang on a bit longer you'll be able to leave that pod soon.

"Thank you Mr Yuy."

"You can just call me Heero."

XXXXX

After entering the ship Heero set the pod down and walked his machine over to a catwalk where two rifle men and three other officers took positions in front. Heero was expecting this and preferred to avoid a confrontation but he'd have to keep his guard up since there was always the chance they could try something and if they'd with him it was a given he'd strike back and if they tried to hurt the civilian he'd protect her since he didn't bring her to the ship to be executed.

Has Heero opened his hatch one of the officers a woman with brown hair introduced herself. "I am Murrue Ramius and captain of this ship as I already told you and these two are Mu La Flaga and Natarle Badgiruel." Ramius said gesture to the other two officer.

"Nice to meet ya." Mu said while Natarle glared at him and eyed hi Gundam a little too much for comfort.

"While it was noble of you to rescue a civilian I have a few questions for you. I'm going to have to ask you to come with us."

"Very well."

Before any of the four could begin to leave the hanger bay however the voice of one of the engineers spoke.

"Ramius we got the civilian out but…" The mechanic stopped unable to bring himself to continue.

"Who are…." Ramius stopped in mid sentence as she saw the person who came out and drawn an entire crown. "…They"

Heero glanced in the life boat's direction and saw a girl around his age.

"She's beautiful." One of the crew members said offhandedly and while the comment may have been less than relevant to anything not even Heero himself could deny the truth of it, actually it might have been more accurate to say she was one of the most beautiful girls to exist in either world. The girl in question wore a long purple skirt with a white shirt with separated sleeves.

Her hair was a light shade of pink with a triple layered gold hair pin in it. "Thank you for helping me out of that pod but might I be able to speak with Heero Yuy, I'd really like to meet him."

Everyone just stared at the pinkette in pure shock.

"Is it rally Lacus Clyne the number 1 pop Idol of the Plants?" One of the younger crew members asked,

'So that's her name.' Heero thought slightly taken aback by the fact that he was a famous figure. While meeting well known figures wasn't anything new for Heero or any of the other Gundam Pilots he didn't expect to meet one so soon but thinking about it now that was probably just how his luck was considering Relena who was now a symbol for peace throughout the entire world of the After Colony Era so this may have simply been inevitable.

Looking around Lacus became confused. "Um yes I am but it was known to most people in the Plant's that I would be attending the memorial for those lost during the Valentine tragedy so it shouldn't be this much of a shock I'm here."

Everyone just stared at her silently. "Um this is a Zaft ship right?"

It was at that moment that Badgiruel snapped out of her stupor and called out to the guards. "Restrain her we'll interrogate her later."

Two officers on the first level of the hanger bay wasted no time in grabbing Lacus by both of her arms and forcing them behind her. Murrue became mentally stunned by her second in command's actions but that proved not to be the end of it when Heero suddenly elbowed one of the riflemen who were charged with watching him and swapped the officer's rifle before firing into the leg of the other riflemen that came with Ramius and the other two commanding officers in the leg before knocking the first one out with the butt of the rifle he took and pulled out his pistol and aimed at the shocked captain of the ship whilst leveling the rifle so he could shoot La Flaga and Badgiruel if they tried anything.

Both the lieutenant and second in command's eyes widened with shock before the latter spoke.

"So you were a Zaft solider after all!"

"No I'm not I'm just let letting you hurt a random civilian just because she's from the enemy's homeland."

"She's not just any civilian she's the chairman of the plant's daughter."

"That irrelevant, she's still a civilian when it's all said and done, you have no right to interrogate her just so you can harm or imprison her for the way she was born nor any right to use her as a hostage. She's not a part of the war effort so don't drag her into it." Heero retorted before turning to Ramius.

"It's not my intention to hurt any of you nor am I your enemy but I didn't bring Lacus here so you could have her needlessly detained now call off the guards." Heero demanded turning off his pistol's saftey

Ramius already knew from the look Heero's eye he was more than ready to pull the trigger to both guns if she didn't comply with his demand but still she was rather shocked that the teen boy resorted to this for Lacus' sake granted his accusations about Natarle's intentions for trying to detain Lacus were for the majority part spot on in fact the only thing he was really wrong about was the supposed intent to hurt Lacus simply for how she was born though she couldn't even blame the boy holding her at gun point for jumping to that conclusion considering as much as she hated to admit it there was no shortage of people in the Earth Alliance who'd happily do just that and more but Natarle in spite of the impression she was giving off knew better then to take things that far since it would only escalate the war even further.

"Alright." Ramius then turned towards to guards on the first level. "Let her go she's not a soldier." The Guards let her go.

Ramius then turned back to Heero who lowered both guns much to her relief. "Now that we've established we won't treat Ms Clyne as an enemy I need both of you to come with me."

"Alright but there's one more thing I need to warn you about before we go and I'm only gonna say this once." Heero said tilting his head in Wing Zero's direction slightly.

"If anyone tries to tamper, or take my mobile suit it will self destruct and I promise nobody on board will survive."

"Alright now please come with me." Ramius said before turning to Lacus.

"I'm sorry for asking this of you after what you've been through you will have to come with us as well."

XXXXX

On board a Zaft ship known as the Vesalius four Zaft ace pilots who had recently acquired four of five special mobile suits made on the now destroyed colony of Heliopolis were discussing how to deal with the Archangel during the next time they encountered the EA's new legged ship along with Strike.

"Sheesh not once but twice that ship and the Strike managed to get away from us. This isn't gonna look good on our track record ya know." The pilot of the Buster G weapon Dearka Elsmen said.

"They only got lucky on Heliopolis and those bottom feeders at that Artemis base wouldn't quit trying to butt in until we blasted them to hell." Replied another Zaft red pilot named Yzak Joule

"And to think Athrun was so close to actually capturing the Strike."

"It doesn't we'll catch up to them before long and take them all out."

"True but first we'll have to dispose of an advance unit that likely intends to link up with the legged ship." Another voice said causing the pilots to turn and see a blond man wearing a mask.

"An escort unit that? That'll be even less of a challenge than the Strike." Yzak said.

"Speaking of which it would be preferable if were to eliminate this unit before they link up with the EA's new ship so we can focus on one target at a time." A map displaying the EA ship's and the escort unit's locations and anticipated courses showed up on the bridge's main monitor.

"It looks like we may be able to pull it off but we'll only have about ten minutes." Nicol Amalfi who was the pilot of the stolen Blitz G weapon said.

"More an entire ten minutes considering we're the ones charged with mopping the floor with those Naturals, heh this'll take less than half of the time we've been giving." Yzak declared smirking in anticipation of what he believed would be an easy win for him and the rest of the La Cruset team.

Athrun Zala who was the Pilot of the stolen G weapon type mobile designated as the Aegis rolled his eyes as his teammates statement. While it was true they'd have the overwhelming advantage consider the EA needing a 5 to 1 advantage just to have a chance against common pilots of Zaft and the La Cruset team was made up of Zaft red aces who had four of the five G weapons made on Heliopolis which all had superior specs to any mass production mobile suit model which practically guaranteed their victory against the escort unit Athrun was also well aware that this didn't make him and the other Zaft reds untouchable like Yzak seemed to think, too much complacency would cost even them greatly.

XXXXX

"So Ms Clyne why were in an escape near the ruins of Junius seven?" inquired Ramius to Lacus across from herself, Natarle (was glaring at Heero with such intensity that one had to wander if she wanted to kill) and Mu with Heero next to her.

"I was traveling with a special envoy to Junius seven in order to perform a memorial service there for those who were lost by its destruction when were attacked by an Earth Alliance patrol unit I was fortunate enough to avert death by luck my escape pod. After that Heero found me and brought me to this ship to save me."

Heero a slightly surprised Lacus left out the part where he eliminated the EA forces that where responsible for attacking the envoy, not that he was complaining since if those among the ship found out he wiped out force on their side they'd likely become convinced that he was a part of Zaft.

"I see." Ramius said before turning to Heero.

"Heero Yuy just who are and what are your intentions after this?"

"I'm a pilot with specialized skills and as for the second part I plan to simply see where this war leads which actually brings me to a proposition."

Ramius tensed up.

"What kind?"

"One where I become something of an ally for you, at least for the time being in exchange for letting me stay here on a few conditions."

"And what are they."

"First you're not to touch my machine without my supervision or as I warned you of before it will self detonate and even then it'll only be to reload one of its weapons. Second I won't be following your orders I'll be fighting as something of a mercenary not a member of the ship's crew so I've no intention of being told when or when not to sortie since I can easily determine that for myself." Heero said.

Natarle decided to protest. "What right does a civilian like you have to deny us access to that machine? It's…"

"Mine, not the Earth Alliance's." Heero said cutting her off before continuing. "The machine wasn't built by the EA or Zaft and before you ask the identity of those who did stays with me."

Natarle's eyes narrowed in anger.

"And finally, while this means I'll be fighting Zaft forces on your behalf I'm going to at least return Lacus Clyne to them, I have no intention of allowing you guys to interrogate her for information she doesn't have or use her as a bargaining chip against Zaft, she might be the chairman's daughter but that doesn't justify dragging her into the war.

Ramius eyes narrowed upon hearing the accusation even if it wasn't hard to understand why the boy in front of her would think those were her intentions especially with what Natarle tried to pull. Overall from the average EA officers point of view the terms Heero just laid out would normally be unacceptable since they essentially gave him leeway to do almost anything he wanted, plus they'd be denied a chance to further their military strength via analyzation and study of his machine, and on top of that the EA would be losing a political asset that could give them a major advantage over Zaft which was something the EA really needed so it would make sense for the average EA officer to refuse the proposition but since the Archangel's crew was in a rather desperate situation but with twhat happened back in the hanger boy it didn't a genius to realize Heero was not going to budge on the matter to know Heero was going to budge an inch on the matter with Lacus, if anything he seemed more concern with protecting her than anything else.

"Done." Ramius said causing her second in command to look at her.

"Captain I don't believe it's wise to concede to what this boy demanded." Natarle protested.

"What choice do we have? We don't have any supplies we barely have enough of crew to operate this ship, and Zaft forces along with the four stolen G weapons are hot on our heels, we need all the help we can get to this point."

"And how do we know this boy will be capable of helping us when we're attacked again?"

"I'll prove it when the time comes." Heero said.

"Ok I'll agree to your terms however I expect you to keep your promise about fighting alongside us the next time we engage the enemy and aside from returning Lacus Clyne to the Plant you will not do anything to undermine our mission or betray us or you will be considered an enemy from point forward and treated as such. Understand?"

"Yeah." Heero said not even flinching upon hearing the warning given to him.

"We'll I think that wraps this meeting up. How about we show these two to their room." Mu said.

"Actually, there's one more thing we need to know pertaining to Yuy." Natarle said glaring at the teen boy who simply met her gaze with a stoic expression.

"Are you a Coordinator?"

"Badgiruel!"

"It's necessary for us to know, it'll be a factor in how useful he is."

Ramius glared a Natarle. The second in command wasn't a bad person but her by the book attitude and pragmatistic way of thinking often led her to make less then morally appropriate decisions from time to time.

Right now since the crew weren't going to be able to extract anything from Heero's machine or take it which Natarle probably was itching to do when he initially showed up before revealing its self-detonation feature the only option left was to see how much use they could get out of him on the battle field when fighting started which was what Natarle wanted to determine here and now.

"No." Heero answered causing everyone to stare at him in shock.

"But you were piloting that mobile suit, weren't you?" Lacus asked.

"Yes due to specialized training I received from birth."

"But you're a natural."

"Yes, but I can assure you I can deal with whatever enemy becomes a target for elimination."

"Then you won't have any complaints if we decided to have you take a blood and reaction test." Natarle said.

"I won't, if you need the test to gain some inkling to if I'll actually be of any use to you then go ahead, I'll take it." Heero replied.

"Well I'd say that wraps the meeting up." Mu La Flaga said standing up before continuing.

"Heero I need you to come with me so we can take the blood and reaction tests. Ms Clyne is free to come along if she wishes."

"Thank you." The songstress said.

"Alright let's get on with it." Heero said.

Ramius could only bring herself in inwardly sigh.

XXXXX

"Is this guy really a Natural?" An EA officer asked as he Mu, Lacus, and a wide eyed Natarle watched Heero fire at targets of the Archangel's shooting range.

"Yeah the blood test confirmed it and when we took an x-ray it showed him to have too many broken bones for any Coordinator to have but his reactions times far surpass even Kira's and his skills with a hand arm put any of our ace shooters and probably even Zaft's to complete shame." Mu said scratching the back of his head unsure of what to make of this.

He already knew Heero wasn't your run of the mill teen when he held Ramius, Natarle and himself at gun point in retaliation to Natarle's attempt at imprisoning Lacus for the EA to interrogate once they linked up with the eighth fleet plus that boy had the look of a trained killer in his eyes.

But even taking notice of this Mu couldn't have anticipated this amount of skill from the boy. With Heero's mobile suit which he called Wing Zero having a similar look to the G weapons Mu could already tell it surpassed any GINN DINN or CGUE. How powerful it was compared to the Strike and stolen G weapons Mu La Flaga could only guess but if the boy's skills with a mobile suit were anything like his skill with a handgun then Mu had a feeling Heero's aid on the battle field would more than make up for what he refused to give the crew by far.

'Still he's just one pilot against four, granted he'll have support from me and Kira but still will he be able to hold his own?'

XXXXX

"Heero I would have never guessed you were so skilled with a hand arm before." Lacus said as she and Heero sat in the they were both given since all the other rooms weren't taken be the skeleton crew were occupied by refugees from Heliopolis.

"As I said before I was trained from birth."

"By who?"

"A special scientist."

"Isn't there anymore you could tell me like where you were born maybe?"

Heero just stared at her for a moment. He wandered if it was really ok to share any personal information with the girl he had saved. He barely knew her however she did refrain from telling the EA about how he wiped out the squadron responsible for attacking the memorial crew that she was traveling with so as things stood she was pretty the only person he could even remotely trust and it wasn't like we would need to tell her every little classified secrete pertaining to his past and Wing Zero.

That still left the problem of how he would tell her in a way that she would believe him. Thinking it over the was really only one way he could show evidence in the truth of what he would tell her.

"Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to ask anything too personal I was just curious!"

"No it's fine I just wasn't sure how to answer in a way that wouldn't lead you to believe I was insane."

"What do you mean?"

"It might be better if I showed you directly but we'll need to head to my Gundam."

"Um ok."

XXXXX

Inside the cockpit of Wing Zero Heero pulled up a video to show Lacus who was forced to sit in his lap.

"What is this." Lacus asked referring to the video in front of her which was currently paused showing two GINNs and a CGUE. She also took notice that the date for the video displayed the age After Colony rather than Cosmic Era which baffled her to no end.

"A record of what happened before I found you. I know you're confused right now but after you see this what I'm going to tell you will make much more sense."

Heero played the video which sowed the events leading up to his being transported to the cosmic Era.

Lacus was baffled when one of the Zaft pilots said "this word." Then she remembered how the date said After Colony making her suspicious about where this was leading. Shock set in when the fighting began and when Heero questioned the CGUE Lacus' eyes widened upon hearing the name Roland Quinby, however the astonishments didn't end there as a vortex of some kind appeared behind the CGUE and Roland egged Heero on to follow him through once Heero did he was left in a tunnels that looked to be made of swirling dark cloud before an opening appeared which he went through and found himself at the location where the memorial envoy was attacked by the EA before the video which now displayed Cosmic Era came to an end.

Lacus found herself unable to speak for the first few moments before her voice finally me to her. "Wh-what does this mean?"

"Lacus, I'm from a different world."

The pinkette couldn't bring herself to respond earning a sigh from the Gundam pilot.

"I'm well aware of how irrational that sound but it's the truth. I won't hold it against you for not wanting to believe me."

"Oh no I trust you're being honest it's just knowing of the existence of another world is just a lot to take in."

"Believe I know I was shocked when I first ended up here."

"Speaking of which Heero I must ask are you here because of Roland?" Lacus asked in a tone that made it evident she was now worried where the situation was going.

"Yes. When he stated that he was looking for weapons in my world that wasn't something I could ignore especially since the people of my world are finally moving towards a time of peace of many years of war and Roland's intentions could likely undo all of that."

"I see."

"Lacus I need to ask you do you know anything about Roland or the individual he mentioned when I observed when speaking to his allies named Keagan."

Lacus was silent for a few moments before answering. "I don't know much about either one of them, all I can tell you is that Keagan if the one Roland mentioned is the same one I'm thinking of is a member of the Zaft council who helped developed the first mobile suit known as the GINN and others that came after it, beyond that nobody really knows much of anything about him."

"Seriously?" Asked Heero raising an eyebrow.

"Yes aside from what I told you Keagan or rather Keagan Brown keeps everything else he does secrete even from the other council members of the Plants."

"That hasn't caused others to accuse him of anything."

"I'm sure many of the other members have their doubts in Keagan's sincerity for the citizens of the Pants but with him being involved with the invention and development of Zaft Mobile suits and therefore a major contributor to the war with the EA they can't really voice any suspicions against him without risking looking like a fool in front of the rest of the council."

"So basically what he's done on the surface gives him leeway to do other things on his own term without consulting any other members." Heero said.

If everything Lacus said was true than chances were extremely high that Keagan had sent Roland and the other two pilots to his world in secrete meaning the existence of the AC world was ultimately unknown to those of the Cosmic Era. Knowing that it became evident that Heero needed to find out more about this Council member and what he was after, if he was even half as secretive as Lacus implied then it was a safe bet to assume he had his own agenda and something he personally wanted out of the war between Zaft and the EA.

"I believe that would be the short version of it."

"And what about Roland?"

"Even less. In fact anything I know is only from rumors."

"And what do the rumors say about him?"

"Only that he's only loyal to Keagan and that he's supposedly the best pilot in all of Zaft with skills far surpassing that of even my..." Lacus looked away from Heero. "Fiancé."

It seemed that what Lacus could tell him wasn't anything beyond what he had already learned from his own encounter with Roland. Since there was nothing else to ask pertaining to two individuals responsible for the intrusion if Heero's world the Gundam pilot decided to change the topic to the only thing that he would immediately think of off the top of his head.

"You're engaged?"

"Ye-Yes to a pilot named Athrun Zala." Lacus said.

"You don't sound too pleased about it.' Heero said causing Lacus to look at him.

"So it was that easy to tell?"

"I wasn't meaning to bring up an unhappy topic."

"Oh no it's fine it's just our marriage wasn't one of our choosing."

"You mean it was arranged?"

"Yes, you see in our world people our members of one of two races depending on the genes."

"Natural's and Coordinators?"

"Yes, but how did you know that?"

"Before we boarded the Archangel I downloaded some of their files and researched the history of this world and found out about Coordinators and the war currently raging." Heero answered surprising Lacus.

"But it only took us a few minutes to board the ship after you found it. There's no way even the most seasoned Coordinators could have read enough of our world's history to find out what was going on in that short of a time."

"Not using normal methods no but Wing Zero has something to speed up the process."

"I see." Lacus said before getting back to subject at hand. "As I'm sure you're also aware most Coordinators are living in space colonies known as plants. However a major problem our people are currently facing is an increase in sterilization."

Heero remained silently allowing Lacus to continue.

"You many third generation Coordinators are born Sterile and essentially all fourth generation Coordinators. To counter many marriages are regulated and arranged."

"So basically, your engagement was amongst those that were regulated."

"Yes, and to be honest I never really wanted to go through with it. Don't get me wrong Athrun is outstanding in many way and someone I care for but…."

"You see him as more of a friend then someone you love."

"Ye-yes."

Heero found himself inwardly sighing when he initially brought up the subject he was simply trying to steer his conversation with Lacus away from the one about his mission since he didn't want to reveal anything private about his machine though Lacus never asked even when he told her it had a special feature that allowing him to go through the Cosmic Era recording of events leading up to the war in mere minutes which he was glad for but still he may been a bit impulsive since he steered it towards Lacus' marriage of all things which was rather unusual of him actually.

Unsure of how exactly to handle this particular subject Heero said the only thing he knew that may help Lacus with her maternal problem.

"The only advice I can really give you is to act on your emotions."

"You mean do what I wish."

"At the very least I don't think it's wrong for you to seek out your own form of happiness."

Lacus was about to reply when suddenly the alarms were going off.

"Lieutenant La Flaga, Ensign Yamato, and Heero Yuy report to the hanger bay and prepare to launch in your machines." Natarle's voice said over the radio earning a slight scowl from Heero has he remembered how he made it quite clear he had no intention of following the EA's orders.

'Still I did promise them my aid so it's not like I wasn't planning on taking part to begin with.' Heero thought as he went to the entrance of the room him and Lacus were put in until the latter spoke up.

"Are you going to fight against Zaft forces?"

"I'll give them the chance to retreat but there are refugees on this ship that need to be protected as much as you."

"I know, I don't wish to see any harm come to them but…Please come back safe and sound."

Heero was momentarily caught off guard that someone would bother to worry about his well being in his entire life the only other person who ever did that was Relena.

'You two would probably have been great friends had you ever met.'

Walking just outside the doorway the Gundam pilot stopped again before finally replying.

"Roger that."

XXXXX

"So you're the pilot of that machine?" A teen boy in a blue and white flight suit asked Heero over the radio.

'So this kid's the pilot of the Strike, Kira Yamato.' Heero thought as he eyed the boy displayed in the window of Wing Zero's main monitor. Judging from how nervous the boy was it was pretty safe bet to say he was green.

'Yes. From this point forward were allies but I'm going to warn you now to stay out of my way." Heero replied.

"O-ok." Kira said nervously.

"Let's save the acts of intimidation for the enemy." Mu la Flaga said before continuing. "And Heero you do know you're supposed to wear a flight suit whenever you go out right?"

"I don't plan on dragging this fight out so there won't be any need."

"If you say so. I'm sending you the data on the other four G weapons will likely be encountering."

"Roger." Heero said before looking of the data

'Duel, Buster, Blitz, and Aegis.' Heero thought as images of them came up. Upon looking over the data Heero discovered Duel was a general purpose type, and the buster specialized solely in long range attacks, Blitz had a special stealth feature called mirage collide, and Aegis had the ability to change into a mobile armor form and had the best close combat capabilities out of all the stolen G weapons.

"These suits aren't true Gundams but they're still a lot more powerful than any mass produced unit." Heero said to himself.

While Heero didn't have to worry about being outgunned as far as the power of mobile suits went there was still the pilots skill to worry about, and from his experience with opponents like Zex when he shot Heero off course with a Leo and personal experiences where he himself was at a disadvantage in terms of mobile suit power such as when he fought Quatre who was using Wing Zero at the time with the original Mercuries(Granted it was no run of the mill mobile suit either) or when he went up against Aries mobile doll with a mere Leo Heero was well aware that if the Pilots had enough skill they could use their talent to make up for the disadvantage in fire power and that possibility could very well be the case here.

Weather it was indeed the case or not there was only one way to find out.

"Kira Yamato, Strike launching." Kira said after loading the Strike onto the Archangel's Catapult.

"Mu La Flaga, Mobius Zero launching." Mu said as his mobile armor which was already laoded onto the catapult Launched.

It was then a window appeared on Wing Zero's main monitor which showed a girl around his age with short brown hair. "Heero Yuy please load your machine onto the catapult.

"No need Wing Zero is capable of launching on its own."

"Wait wa.." Heero cut the connection cutting the girl off and engaged Wing Zero's thrusters.

"Heero Yuy, Wing Zero launching." Heero said as Wing Zero accelerated forward of its own accord shocking everyone on the ship's bridge.


Alright that's the end of this chapter it may be a while before the next one comes out, I still gotta work on Hopeful path.

Sorry for the lack of screen time with Kira and his friends for most f the Chapter but I pretty much just wanted to use it to introduce Keagan who will be another major OC and to have Heero and Lacus meet and for them to be the main focus of chapter as far as people currently on the Archangel go. I'm hoping I did a decent enough job with their interactions, I tried to push it as close to fluff as I could at least with the part where the talk between the transitioned to Lacus's engagement but my options for what I could have happen between them are limited, Like I said before I would like to think I did a decent enough job in that regard but I'd like feedback as far as that goes and on the overall chapter.

And the guy Roland met up with and reported to in the first Chapter and Keagan are one in the same he simply wasn't mentioned by name at the time.

Anyway until next time I'm pretty sure anybody who knows how powerful Heero is knows how the fight is going to play out the people on the Archangel don't so their reactions should make it worth while.

PS random question in a hypnotical scenario (That I'm not going to do) would giving Heero an inner seed like Kira Athrun and Shinn make him too OP? lol.